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The Challenge

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight over Presidential Power

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The Challenge

Written by: Jonathan Mahler
Narrated by: William Hughes
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In November 2001, a 31-year-old Yemeni man named Salim Ahmed Hamdan was captured near the Pakistan border and turned over to U.S. forces in Afghanistan. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden's driver, Hamdan was transferred to Guantánamo Bay and designated for trial before a special military tribunal. The Pentagon assigned a young military defense lawyer, Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, to represent him in a defense that no one expected to amount to much.

But with the help of a young constitutional law professor, Neal Katyal, Swift sued the Bush administration over the legality of the tribunals - and won. Written with the cooperation of Swift and Katyal, here is the inside story of this seminal case, perhaps the most important decision on presidential power and the rule of law in the history of the Supreme Court.

©2008 Jonathan Mahler (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Freedom & Security Law United States War & Crisis Pakistan War Military
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"This is the definitive work on an epic Supreme Court case - and on the human beings behind the headlines." (Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court)

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